Ah! I'm not sure I was ever formally taught the trick of flipping numerators/denominators on both sides - I just picked it up, thus why this aspect of it was unknown to me. Thanks!

So, taking it from here, I now end up with:

Is that the same as the book answer I referenced earlier? Or did I make another mistake? I can't quite eyeball them as being identical, but that doesn't mean anything.

Your answer is much closer, but it's still not the same as the book's answer (which is also what I got). The main difference is the location of the arbitrary constant. Can you post your work again, please?

Ah! I'm not sure I was ever formally taught the trick of flipping numerators/denominators on both sides - I just picked it up, thus why this aspect of it was unknown to me. Thanks!

So, taking it from here, I now end up with:

Is that the same as the book answer I referenced earlier? Or did I make another mistake? I can't quite eyeball them as being identical, but that doesn't mean anything.

Your answer is much closer, but it's still not the same as the book's answer (which is also what I got). The main difference is the location of the arbitrary constant. Can you post your work again, please?

Your answer is much closer, but it's still not the same as the book's answer (which is also what I got). The main difference is the location of the arbitrary constant. Can you post your work again, please?

The mistake occurs right here. Whenever you take the exponential of an expression such as x+c, the arbitrary constant, which was additive, becomes multiplicative:

Aha! Thank you, I understand where I went wrong now. With that correction, I can successfully obtain the correct answer. Whew! That was a small bear for me. Thanks for sticking with me through all of that and helping me understand where I was going wrong.

Aha! Thank you, I understand where I went wrong now. With that correction, I can successfully obtain the correct answer. Whew! That was a small bear for me. Thanks for sticking with me through all of that and helping me understand where I was going wrong.